Ambivalences of Color and Other Stories

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About the Author

Robert T. Sorrells is a fiction writer whose stories have been published in a number of magazines including Penthouse, Playgirl, and American Review. A book of his short stories was published by the University of Arkansas Press, and he has been anthologized in The Best American Short Stories series; Tennis and the Meaning of Life: a Literary Anthology of the Game; Full Court: a Literary Anthology of Basketball; and the LSU Press anthology Southern Writing in the Sixties. His story “A Fan of the Game” brought Sorrells a PEN/NEA Syndicated Fiction Award, and he also has been the recipient of a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. His non-fiction work has included writing brochures for Vanderbilt University’s $30,000,000 capital gifts campaign; being commissioned to write a history of Clemson University’s Experimental Forest; writing and narrating programs for a land-use film for the state of South Carolina, as well as working as an editor for Clemson University’s Publications and Graphics Department, and writing articles for the Mayo Clinic’s Volunteer News quarterly magazine. Sorrells has taught English and writing at Murray State College (University), Clemson University, the University of Tennessee, and the University of Arkansas’s MFA (Master of Fine Arts) Program. Sorrells received a Bachelor of Arts from Vanderbilt University in History, a Master of Arts from Vanderbilt University in English; a Master of Fine Arts in Fiction Writing from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop at The University of Iowa.